Truncate
/ˈtrʌŋ.keɪt/noun
To shorten something by cutting off a part of it.
Did you know?Truncate comes from Latin truncare, “to maim, lop off, mutilate,” from truncus, “mutilated, lopped,” a word tied to the image of a tree stripped bare or a body cut down.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*treu-
“to be hard, firm, or solid”
Latin
Latin
truncus
“lopped, maimed, or a tree trunk cut short”
Latin
Latin
truncāre
“to cut off, prune, maim, mutilate”
Late Latin
Latin
truncatus
“cut off, shortened”
Old French
Old French
truncer
“to shorten by cutting”
Modern English
English
truncate
“to shorten by cutting off part of something”